Electrical Panel Upgrade, Replacement & Installation in Kansas City

Yes. Breaker box, breaker panel, service panel, load center and electrical panel all mean the same box: the one where every circuit in the house starts. Breaker box replacement or installation is the same job as a panel replacement or installation.

Yes. We wire new houses and additions for builders and homeowners, and the panel is sized from a load calculation for what the house will actually run, with spaces left for an EV charger, hot tub or heat pump later. Making room later usually costs more than leaving it now.

Often, yes. A failed breaker, a loose or burned connection, a corroded main lug or a damaged cover are all repairs. Replacement is the answer when the panel is a brand with a known breaker problem, the bus itself is burned, or there is simply no room for the circuits the house needs. We tell you which after opening it.

Same-size replacements are the least involved. A 100A to 200A upgrade costs more, because the meter socket and service entrance conductors change with it. Older homes in Brookside or Waldo with a fuse box or knob-and-tube wiring add to any of those — the mast, grounding, and sometimes branch circuits need work alongside the panel.

More than the panel. Going from 100 to 200 amps replaces the panel, the meter socket, the service entrance conductors and usually the grounding, and on an overhead service often the mast and weatherhead too. Evergy disconnects and reconnects the power, the city inspects, and the whole thing is typically done in a day.

Not always. A panel upgrade can be a same-size swap: a new panel on the same 100 or 200 amp service. An electrical service upgrade raises the capacity coming into the house, which changes the meter socket and the conductors from the utility as well. We tell you which one your house actually needs.

If you have central air, electric appliances, and any plans for an EV charger or hot tub, almost certainly. If you're in a small home with gas heat and no plans to add load, 100A may still be fine. We'll give you the honest answer.

It has no ground conductor, the insulation degrades over decades, and it was never designed for modern loads. Many insurers won't write a policy on a house that still has active knob-and-tube circuits.

Both have a long record of breakers that fail to trip under fault, and neither has been manufactured for decades, so replacement parts are salvage. Home inspectors flag them, and some insurers will not write a policy until the panel is changed. If you have one, replacing it is the fix — there is no repair that makes the panel current again.

Typically four to eight hours, in a window coordinated with Evergy ahead of time.

Yes. We hold a Johnson County, KS electrical contractor license as well as our Kansas City, MO license, and we pull panel permits in Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa and Shawnee as well as on the Missouri side.

The 2017 National Electrical Code. Independence, Lee's Summit and Blue Springs are on the 2023 edition and Gladstone on the 2020, so the breakers a panel quote needs can differ across a city line. We price to the code the permit falls under.

Yes. Breaker box, electrical panel, service panel and load center are four names for the same box. In Kansas City's older neighborhoods it is sometimes still a fuse box, which does the same job with fuses instead of breakers. Replacing any of them is the same job, priced the same way.